IDAHO (PT)

History Detectives
A stamp collector buys a stash of materials and finds some letters written during the Civil War - one from a Union soldier to his brother inquiring about a commission, another from the soldier's comrade to tell the brother his sibling had been wounded. Tracing the story of the letters uncovers a story that reaches into the heart of the ugliness of slavery and the emotions it engendered.G

10:00 pm

Surviving The Dust Bowl: American Experience
They were called "black blizzards," dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For 10 years, beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, refusing to give up on the land and a way of life. Liev Schreiber narrates.G